Windsor Heights police released new statistics Friday on its automated traffic cameras.

The report details the number of cars scanned by the cameras and how many tickets were issued.

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Windsor Heights added the cameras in the spring of 2012 inside two cars that are moved around the city each day.

The total amount of revenue received from the program in 2013 was $259,965. Gatso USA, the city’s selected vendor, received $97,200 - this only covered a portion of their upfront capital equipment investment to supply the city with automated technologies. The city received $162,765 from the program.

The city said $44,000 in fiscal year 2013 went to replacement patrol vehicle and equip, 2 portable radios. Some $48,000 in fiscal year 2014 went to replacement patrol vehicle & equip, 2 portable radios. Also in fiscal year 2014, public safety building generator replacement that had a 75% failure rate cost $25,000.

Some $45,000 from fiscal year 2013 and 2014 went to finance a lawsuit with the Iowa DOT over proposed automated traffic cameras on Interstate 235.

BY THE NUMBERS:

-- Two mobile units were deployed for a total of 9,583 hours (January – December 2013)

-- Over 1.75 million vehicles had their speeds measured by the two units